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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2034696" data-attributes="member: 2020">TO RIKANDUR (AND OTHERS)  If Iuz drops the protection from scrying that is shielding Doraaka - and thus Lady Shadow and the Dark Drow - I hope he informs Lady Shadow!  After all, there is nothing like Getting Out of Town in a hurry.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Lady Shadow would recommend Iuz not drop his shield against scrying.  After all, says she, when the Powers of Light find out that Doraaka was being used as a safehouse for the Dark Drow, won't all those idiots descend on Iuz himself as a collaborator?  -  The Elves of Aliador, now strengthened by the aid from Al'Akbar, pursue the Apparition, which is slowly and steadily driven back into the Empire of Iuz.  The Elves hit the Apparition with a steady, relentless assault that is too much even for him, forcing him to retreat, forcing him to rematerialize elsewhere, hitting him again and again.   If Iuz is still in Aliador, he is attacked.  By Lady Gwyndilyn, Eilistraee, and a Host of Elves not very happy with his Howling Death and his diseases and other afflictions that killed so many of their brethren.  If Iuz flees, he is not pursued.  The Elves of Aliador begin a furious magical search for Lady Shadow and the Dark Drow.  They are bending enormous amounts of power into this search.  It doesn't work:  they are foiled by the protection from scrying warding Doraaka, but they are still searching anyways.  -  King Arden of the League of Athyr is, along with everyone else in Athyr, stunned by the destruction of Veluna City.  (He was stunned by the Dark Raids, but he is literally knocked over by this.)  Wish spells are uttered in time to stop the maelstrom from spreading further (with divine help from Al'Akbar, if that is required, I am assuming) but not in time to save the city, where no attack had occurred and none was expected.  Arden is furious:  no, Arden is livid.  He wants whoever did this NOW.  He wants their head on a platter, their body on a spit, and their spirit for dessert.  He's almost unpaladinish about this.  The ENTIRE HOST of the League of Athyr FULLY mobilizes.  The League of Athyr declares that whoever did this - Lady Shadow, anyone else, and everyone else involved - is dead.  They had better start praying to whatever foul Gods they have while they can, because there isn't going to be anything left when Arden is done with them.  Just as there is nothing left of Veluna City, there will be nothing left of THEM.  And ANYONE who conspired with them, or aided them, or even talked nicely to them, is going to die as well.  Arden makes that a PROMISE.  (There is probably nothing more dangerous in D&D than a berserk paladin.  Wouldn't you agree?)  TO WILLIAM  Aliador most certainly agrees to suspend all hostilities towards all other powers, until Vecna (the Apparition, which they think is Vecna) and Iuz (who sent the Howling Death and magical disease which nothing could stop (according to Rikandur) into their ranks) and Lady Shadow have been dealt with.  Aliador has hundreds of thousands dead, and hundreds of thousands very sick (they would be dead too, but Eilistraee as a demipower was strong enough to save them) and hundreds of thousands more wounded, many horribly (thanks heavily to the Apparition and his chains, but also partly due to that effect Iuz threw that turned many elves into faceless berserkers who attacked anything nearby, fighting to the death.)  Aliador thinks it had best concentrate it's efforts on the problem (Vecna, Iuz, Lady Shadow) and the rest can wait, for now.</blockquote>

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